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This not an answer. I'm sure I have read that some of the Parkinsons disease medications have that mode of action. I had good results with a serotonin antagonist leaving natural dopamine levels, presumably, the same.

Hmm... no, I don't know about that one. I was prescribed it for restless leg syndrome. It has an unfortunate side effect of potentially causing people to do things unlike themselves. I came to realize that I was waking up in the middle of the night, getting online with my computer, and placing orders worth hundreds - without quite realizing what I was doing. Things arrived at my door and I had no idea what they were, or why they had come for me. I came to realize that I was exhibiting the behavior I had been warned about, and it was showing itself in the form of excessive spending, during hours when I was only semi-conscious. I had to discontinue the drug immediately.

There are a ton of research chemicals, but when it comes to straight dopamine drugs, they're not typically prescribed because of their reward centers and people 'wanting' more. There is one that starts with a D and ends in opine that is used as a stimulant, and it must be able to be prescribed to humans, as it has been used to treat symptoms of Parkinson's Disease. If it's still being prescribed, it's definitely a controlled substance, because it has a chemical structure related to you know - the white powder people ruin their lives over.

It would be equivalent to doing coke, crack, or meth! Addiction and nonhabitual, uncontrollable, even criminal behaviours. I'll stick with approved antidepressants and not try to screw around with my brain's chemicals and functions, thank you!! There's a reason they're not used.

Just out of curiosity, how have you been able to establish that the neurochemical norepinephrine 'makes you sick'? Do you mean nauseous? And if so, how did you come to the conclusion that it was the N?

Yep, Wildcat... that's pretty much what I was trying to say, but every time I tried to use the words you did, my posts got audited, so I had to water them down. Wellbutrin, parkinsons meds, ADD/ADHD are about it; beyond that, doctors don't really go there because they might as well be prescribing what you could get in a dark alley. LOL

?? Maybe you're monitored because you're still fairly new. Drugs.com goes to great lengths to keep these boards on the *straight and naroow* and they do a darn good job of it which is why it's so nice here.. A couple of the other boards are completely out of control

Yes, I'm sure that's true; however, as an Intermediate user, I'm in the category where responding to comments should be in the clear. What I have found is that there are a few triggers to automatic pushing up. Mentioning a drug name different from anything named in the question, saying anything about number of milligrams of anything (which probably comes across as a concern that I might be giving advice about dosage or something), and extra-long posts, which really stink, because I take a LOT of time trying to help people out with things I have a LOT of experience with, and I know the person will basically never hear from me. Yeah, I was wondering how on earth you managed to say those words, above. There is NO WAY I could get away with that.

Everyone occasionally gets a comment randomly pulled pending approval, which is fine with me. What isn't is that the comment never gets posted. I know my comments aren't offensive ~ the one above is the worst I've ever made and, as you say, it's frustrating because I put a lot into many of my answers.

I agree, that's my biggest frustration of all. It's one thing if you feel that you just need to be patient and the person will eventually get the help that you're trying to provide, but the word "never" is truly the keyword here. You've been around a lot longer than I have, so you likely have a VAST more collection of experience; all I can say is that I kept watching for posts that were 2 months old to eventually come through, and eventually realized that the only way I could get through to the person was to add them as a friend and have a private conversation. I do think that this site is the BEST one out there; I've never felt safer, more able to share openly, etc. There are just some frustrations that I probably need to just let go of because it's out of my control. :)

I was reading about frustration and remembered when I was new there was a member who reported a post I'd spent about 90 minutes on and it was just randomly deleted without any checks on content. The annoying part was this member then reposted my post verbatim (3 different words on a third of a page) 4 hours later. I still hate the person.

There are many natural products that can increase dopamine levels, here is just a few; chromium picolinate supplements, tyrosine, bananas. Magnesium is also really good for serotonin production. Natural products do take longer to have an effect on your body but sometimes they can be far more effective then harsh chemicals that have bad side affects.

Hi Jay - Yes, I also remember reading that because, when I realized that dopamine was 1 large key to my mental health, I wanted to learn of any natural ways to help boost it beyond Pharma.

This is actually why I eat an avocado 3 or 4 times per week (I don't know whether it's unhealthy to eat them more frequently than that). But I saw avocado on the list and I was like Cha-Ching! YUM! I love those suckers! Oh, what torture!!! /sarcasm :-D